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State Games, Streets Alive!, and Veggie Van
Sports, Play, and Fresh Produce
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July Partner Spotlight
Teach a Kid to Fish is now
Center for the Child & Community
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Teach a Kid to Fish is now Center for the Child & Community. Children's Hospital & Medical Center acquired Teach a Kid to Fish and will continue its programming, but in a more dynamic and expanded capacity.
Now located at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln. Their aim is to integrate health care and public health efforts to improve the overall health of children statewide. The Center collaborates with communities across Nebraska to create local solutions to large-scale children's health issues, such as childhood obesity, poverty, injury prevention and food insecurity. Read more
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July Partner Spotlight
Community Crops
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Crops Awarded Grant for Mobile Famer's Market
Too many Lincoln residents are not able to take advantage of the vast amounts of local produce currently available.
Thanks to funding from the Community Health Endowment, Crops is launching a new mobile farmer's market project, called the Veggie Van, that will bring fresh, local produce every week to the new Health 360 clinic parking lot. Centrally located, at 23rd & O Sts., clients of the clinic and surrounding neighborhoods will have easy access to fresh, healthy produce at a reduced cost. Read more.
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10 Health TV in July
Shape of the City, Fitness Fun
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Shape of the City:
Fitness: Tennis Basics with a Backboard Find a comprehensive calendar of health, wellness, and fitness events in Lincoln on the 10 Health TV Calendar. |
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PHL Presents at National Forums
Lincoln Community Breastfeeding Initiative,
Community Breastfeeding Educators Featured
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, project coordinator for the LCBI, will present the programs in July at the International Lactation Consultant Association in Chicago and in August at the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee conference in Washington D.C. The Lincoln Community Breastfeeding Initiative is a cooperative partnership of health care providers and community organizations focused on improving infant health by providing accurate information on infant nutrition and local support.
The Community Breastfeeding Educator (CBE ) program uses culturally diverse moms to provide peer to peer breastfeeding support to new mothers and mothers new to America in their homes and communities. The program is a collaboration between Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, MilkWorks, and the Asian Community and Cultural Center. Read more about the LCBI and CBE program.
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Nebraska Sports Council
Cornhusker State Games
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 Cornhusker State Games
July 15 - 24The Nebraska Sports Council invites you to join them this summer for the 32nd annual Conrhusker State Games! More than 12,000 amateur athletes, of all ages and abilities, will compete in 60+ sports in Lincoln, Omaha and surrounding communities. To find the location of event, visit their website and click on a sport.
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Whats New, Back by Popular Demand
Streets Alive 2016! Set for Sept. 25
Sign up now to sponsor, exhibit, entertain, or volunteer
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 Come out and enjoy Streets Alive!, our outdoor movement festival on Sunday, Sept. 25, from 1 - 5 PM. Full of music, dance, fitness, food, and free health resources, the event is family, wheelchair and pet friendly.
Blocked off from traffic, you can walk, run, skate, bike, or even dance your way over a 2 mile route that includes walking and biking trails, community gardens, food trucks, and farmer's markets. Hosted again this year by the Clinton, Hartley, and East Campus neighborhoods. And it's all FREE!
What's New, Back By Popular Demand
Music - Visitor favorites the String Beans and Tuna Fish Jones are back. New entertainment includes rock group Erosion, polka group Less Talk More Polka, and jazz/funk group, the Cool Poppas.
Dance - Favorites Doeden Country Swing Dancers are back. New this year are the Lincoln Irish Dancers and the CK Dance Company
Farmer's Markets - Community Crops Veggie Van adds their fresh local produce to the market this year and the popular mobile hydration stations are back.
Sports/Fitness - Defy Gravity is back with their kid-favorite bubble soccer.
New this year:
- Special guest former Husker and pro football standout, Jay Foreman, now president of Foreman Foundation, will be on hand to sign autographs and talk with visitors about the foundation's mission of diabetes education.
- CKO Kickboxing joins the lineup to demonstrate kickboxing technique
In the Works
- More Husker athletes in the news
- Mini "Porch Fest". Move from neighborhood porch to porch and enjoy all kinds of live music.
Streets Alive! gets more popular each year and every new exhibitor and entertainer brings additional visitors to our festival - meaning more visibility for the groups and organizations who participate! If you're interested in being involved, learn more about:
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln (PHL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, wellness, and fitness of our community. We collaborate with other organizations on joint projects to improve health by increasing physical fitness, promoting good nutrition, supporting breastfeeding, and improving cancer screening rates.
Our work includes improving health and wellness policies, conducting community level research, and evaluation of the success of local health initiatives.
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